Technology, such as digital storytelling, is used with middle age students, the technology might be used to affect their attendance. The action research was conducted with twenty-four (24) sixth grade computer lab students. Cycle I was held over two and a half weeks. Cycle 2 ran two weeks, no schedule interruptions like Cycle I had with the weather.
The first cycle had sporadic attendance with school delays and cancellations.
The students used MS Storytelling 2 software to use 3 illustrations or pictures to help tell their story. Students saved their DS to their virtual hard drives, allowing the tech supervisor to copy the stories to a DVD-R for the students to take home.
The learning about digital storytelling and creating stories did help maintain attendance.
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